May 2009
89 posts
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
– Chinese Proverb (via notentirely)
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful...”
– Helen Keller
(via kari-shma)
“And once you lose yourself, you have two choices. Find the person you used to be...”
– (via littlemiss) (via kari-shma)
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive....”
– Harold Thurman (via kari-shma)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurman
“I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.”
– Neil Gaiman (via reluctantbuddha) (via cassandralee)
I’m finding the most unexpected things… but time only in small amounts.
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow...”
– Neil Gaiman (via reluctantbuddha) (via cassandralee)
“Remember, remember. This is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath (via jlovely) (via willmccloud) (via thebeesknees4) (via suspendedingaffa) (via obsequious) (via marieadele) (via fairydances) (via jumbledemotion) (via tinyparcels) (via atoms) (via undertheoak) (via finallyseeing) (via dustpollengrass)
“Tweet and FB are making blogging obsolete! I have literally been Facebooking...”
– Rob Walker - Your content or your life? (via catbird)
“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying”
– Coleman Hawkins (musician) (via quote-book)
“If it bores you, don’t do it. If it excites you, do it.”
– Björk (via fuckyeah-bjork) (via cardiograms)
“I want to spend the time I have doing things that make my heart rage.”
– The Great Buck Howard (via filmquotes) (via unicornology) (via dustpollengrass)
“I believe that we are seeing a disruption of behavior in how people use the web....”
– How Internet Content Distribution & Discovery Are Changing
from our GigaPappi (Om Malik)
(via noreaster)
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”
– Douglas Adams
“No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start...”
– Dan Zadra (via thresca) (via katelucia)
“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed...”
– Robert Ardrey
Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan →
dailymeh:
Here’s the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It’s not that simple. We’re all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Every man is broken into twenty-four-hour fractions, and then again within those twenty-four hours. It’s a daily pantomime, one man yielding control to the next: a...
Mission Accomplished (ver.2009)
ridingwithstrangers:
Jeff’s take on Air Force One NY photo op.
He has a point.
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.”
– Albert Camus (via thetidbits)
expose:
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. I chant the...
“You know what I think. I think that we’re all in our private traps, clamped in...”
– Psycho, Robert Bloch (via expose)
